Theatre
The Saint Joseph’s Theatre program provides several opportunities for students to practice theatrical work on and off the stage and gain experience as leaders, problem solvers, and collaborators - skills that are beneficial in any future careers!
In the classroom, students have a variety of opportunities to participate in performance and production design work through involvement in both the Middle and High School classes.
Outside of the classroom, students can audition to participate in the annual SJCS productions:
- MS Musical
- HS Fall Play
- HS Spring Musical
- HS Improv Knight
- High School students can also audition for the competition one act plays directed by members of the Senior class.
Additionally, Juniors and Seniors who are interested in leadership and design responsibilities apply for a role in Production Design as production leaders in Set, Props, Costumes, Tech, Stage Management, Box Office, etc.
Students have the opportunity to participate in competition events and college auditions at the following festivals:
- South Carolina Theatre Association Annual Convention
- South Carolina Thespian & Palmetto Dramatic Association Festival
- Southeastern Theatre Conference
- International Thespian Festival
- Jr. Thespian Festival
"As Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece."
- St. John Paul II, Letter to Artists
“The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.”
– Arthur Miller
"I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being."
- Oscar Wilde